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Blackpowder Accuracy
I know bp guys usually shoot out to 600yds, but it was cool to see the video of how accurate bp is.
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The shooter will always matter more than the gear ever will.
Stop relying on others to do the work for you.
Shoot more, worry less.
The shooter will always matter more than the gear ever will.
Stop relying on others to do the work for you.
Shoot more, worry less.
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I expected way more accent with that 'stash, but I only heard a couple "oots" and one "aboot". He in Oregon or a real Canadian?
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Checked out his page, he really gets into period correct uniforms for the weapon at hand.
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Always wanted to try long range BP shooting, too old now. The recoil would kill me.
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Biweekly, USParalympics.org will spotlight one of the Paralympic Sport Clubs making a difference in the Paralympic Movement. Created in 2007 by U.S. Paralympics, a division of the United States Olympic Committee, the community based Paralympic Sport Club program involves youth and adults with physical and visual disabilities in physical activity and sports in their community, regardless of skill level. The program currently has 183 active Paralympic Sport Clubs in 46 states and Washington, D.C. To find Paralympic Sport Clubs and other adaptive, disabled and Paralympic sport opportunities in your community, visit the Paralympic Resource Network.
When Mitchell Miles attended his first archery clinic, he watched as athletes shot with incredible precision. Awe-struck, the Dodson, La. native never thought he would be able to do the same.
"I can't do that. I can't do that," Miles said.
Shooting can be difficult for anyone who has never tried it, and especially for someone like Miles who has barely any feeling throughout the right side of his body.
Yet, after watching a girl with one arm draw the bow with her teeth he thought, "Yes, I can do this."
Three years later, the 19-year-old employs the same technique. His skills have even garnered the attention of national team coaches.
Before Miles discovered archery, he was competing in track and field events hosted by Louisiana GUMBO (Games Uniting Mind and Body), a program that provides athletic opportunities for children who have physical and visual disabilities.
For years, children with disabilities have been able to play sports through their schools, local recreation centers and community organizations. However, playing at a competitive level can be challenging when kids have to contend with able-bodied athletes. Oftentimes, the only other option is a sport program specifically for children who have intellectual disabilities or have a closely related developmental disability.
Therefore, athletes like Miles seem to be in a league of their own.
Seeing a need for adaptive sports competitions, former University of New Orleans professor Dr. Jo Ellen Cowden came up with the idea of Louisiana GUMBO in 1985. With support from Janice Fruge, an education consultant for the Louisiana Department of Education, and a grant from the LDOE, the program was soon developed and hosted its first GUMBO Classic track and field competition.
It was designed to level the playing field and provide a safe environment in which children, despite their physical disabilities, could be active and treated equally. After gaining interest throughout the state and the support of wheelchair sports consultants Sis Theuerkauf and Phil Carpenter, the program grew tremendously.
Since becoming the program's coordinator 18 years ago, Pam Carey says that providing children with the same experiences as their able-bodied classmates, friends and siblings has always been the priority.
"Sometimes they are treated differently," Carey said. "I am trying to change that."
Many of the athletes have spina bifida, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy or visual impairment.
"They just walk differently or they get around differently, but they're just regular kids."
While they may utilize leg braces or wheelchairs or receive assistance from a sighted person, Carey says that "they're athletes, not kids with disabilities."
Carey serves as both the coordinator of Louisiana GUMBO and the executive director of Louisiana GUMBO Inc., the nonprofit organization that helps provide funding for disabled sport opportunities.
Over the years, Louisiana GUMBO has grown to encompass four regions throughout Louisiana and offers athletic competitions in addition to clinics and training for athletes, coaches and officials.
Children who are between the ages 5-18 and who have a physical or visual impairment are eligible to compete. Students who are between the ages of 19-22 may also participate as long as they are enrolled full-time in a public school special education program.
"It always has been important that we provide them with a program that is similar to what they do in school," Carey said.
Every spring, Louisiana GUMBO holds four regional track and field meets. Kids must then qualify to go to the state competition in the fall.
While competitions are an integral part of the program, Carey says that their goal is to help the kids enhance their self-esteem and to become independent. Like all organized sports, they help teach kids essential life skills such as how to learn and abide by rules and how to set and accomplish goals.
"It's important that kids learn how to win and how to lose. That is what life is about. It's not just about winning."
Miles knows all too well the benefits of playing sports. In addition to competing in archery and track & field, the Dodson, La. native plays basketball. He says that sports can be very empowering.
"You learn that you can do anything you want to do and be a great leader in life."
At just three days old, the Dodson, La. native suffered a stroke. However, he doesn't let the effects it had on his body hold him back.
This past track and field season, he set national records in the javelin, discus and shot put events. He will soon head to Chula Vista, Calif. to train with U.S. Paralympics coaches at the U.S. Olympic Training Center. In August, he will represent the U.S. at the International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports World Junior Games in Puerto Rico.
Miles says that he wants children to learn how important it is to have a positive attitude and to embrace the challenges in life. He says that an athlete's physical state is irrelevant.
"I tell them to never give up. Never give up. Just work hard and dream big."
He acknowledges that he would not have these opportunities had it not been for Carey's guidance and Louisiana GUMBO Inc., which has been designated a Paralympic Sport Club by U.S. Paralympics.
Support from the Louisiana Elks Association, Families Helping Families at the Crossroads Louisiana, the Louisiana High School Athletic Association, the LDOE and several dedicated community members, ensures that athletes can participate in events at no cost and have access to various resources.
The program is no longer funded by a grant, but is under a contract. Still, it remains a success and has been able to expand to include archery, boccia and powerlifting, in addition to track & field.
In the 28 years of Louisiana GUMBO's existence, five athletes have gone on to compete in the Paralympic Games. Carey currently has a handful of athletes who are hoping to make the U.S. Paralympic Team and compete at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.
In the meantime, she hopes to continue expanding the program, nurturing the skills of young athletes and introducing more kids to the powerful world of adaptive sports.
"I am a strong advocate of what they can do, not what they can't do."

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Anyone share your thoughts and experiences involving this member Matt1975. Let's get this guy caught, been warned by several member to be aware of this cat who lives is Bolten, ON Canada
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Is anyone in here familiar with Canadian laws or Ontario laws? It seems like this guy has been kicked from Ebay to Sport Card Forum to Combat Cards and I haven't found one person that has something nice to say. Is it possible for such a person to exist where people from all around the world in the mma hobby to be on the same page and agree he is a *****? People even got mad mentioning his name! "Oh no this guy again!" I would like to know over the years if this guy has been doing this and then owning a business claining to have North Americas largest MMA Memorabilia. My concern is that if this guy is dick and his business 1 of 1 sports investments and he gets exposed, he would probably come and kill me or something, so if I should get hurt and no one has seen me on lately, try to pm me to make sure this guy didn't get to me. All joking aside I don't know how crazy this dude is, as he has never threatened me but also hasn't tried to get a hold of me. I WANT TO BELIEVE he is a cool guy but you can't argue with people from UK, Austrailia , Canada, US as well as local.
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(08-07-2012, 12:14 AM)RomeoJ127 Wrote: [ -> ]Anyone share your thoughts and experiences involving this member Matt1975. Let's get this guy caught, been warned by several member to be aware of this cat who lives is Bolten, ON CanadaSo, your making deals around the system then? you do know that is grounds for removal from the boards do you not?


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RADFORD, Va. (Nov. 13, 2006) - The ETSU women's volleyball team closed out its regular season Monday evening dropping a heartbreaker in the Dedmon Center. Radford snapped the Lady Bucs school record winning streak at 16 games, as they went on to win a thriller 24-30, 30-22, 30-23, 31-33, 11-15.
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There were 10 different ties during game four, and the Radford held the largest advantage at a four points on three separate occasions. After both teams kept on battling, ETSU would get some breathing room as they took a three-point lead, 17-14. The lead did not last long for the Lady Bucs as Radford won 12 of the next 17 points to take its largest lead of the match, 26-22. The Lady Bucs put together a rally of their own by winning nine of the next 13 points and took the lead at 31-30. However, ETSU could not get the match point they were looking for to extend their school record winning streak to 17 straight games, as Radford rallied for the final three points.
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When I have to create diagrams for documenting some Java code, I used to manually draw an UML like class diagram with OmniGraffle. This is an error prone process, and a boring one as well. So, I tried to find a better solution. Since I didn't find any existing tool, I wrote a small Eclipse plugin my self. It automatically generates OmniGraffle class diagrams from existing Java code.
Its usage is very simple: Open or create a drawing in OmniGraffle. Then switch back to Eclipse and select "Create OmniGraffle Diagram" from the context menu of a package in the package explorer, as shown in Figure 1. Configure the output, as shown in Figure 2. The plugin will scan the package and add a class diagram of this package to the front most drawing opened with OmniGraffle. Figure 3 shows the result created by the plugin without any manual changes. It is a visualization of the package "ReverseLookup" of GEF3D.
- Getter and setters can be omitted
- Methods implementing or overriding methods of interfaces or classes already shown in the diagram can be omitted as well
- In order to better see relations between classes, you can force to draw all associations, even if they would be filtered out by the scope filter.
Tip: In order to manually change the diagram, you may want to have a look at my collection of UML shapes at Graffletopia.
You can install the plugin via the update site:
In the preferences, you can set the default configuration settings and define the name of your OmniGraffle installation (however, the plugin tries to find the latest installed version automatically).
Last but not least: Of course, this plug is only available on Mac OS X, since OmniGraffle is a native Mac application. The communication between Eclipse and OmniGraffle is done via AppleScript, which is very easy thanks to Peter Friese's blog post.
(At Stackoverflow, someone estimated a tool for creating OmniGraffle diagrams from Eclipse UML2 based models would require 18 months development effort. Well, I needed less then 18 hours. But I only convert Java packages to class diagrams... ;-) ).
Update 2011-11-01:
- Besides packages, selected types and sub packages can be visualized.
- The context of visualized types can be visualized. That is, types on which the selected types depend on, such as super classes, can be rendered additionally to the selected classes. These context types are rendered in gray.
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With over 250 lakes and ponds the Lakes Region certainly lives up to its name. Winnipesaukee is the largest with 180 miles of shoreline dotted with vibrant waterfront communities each with its own unique character such as Wolfeboro, the oldest summer vacation spot in America, Weirs Beach with its boardwalk and family amusements, Meredith with its great restaurants, boutique shops, and marina, and Center Harbor home to the M/S Mount Washington Cruise Ship. Boating, swimming, and fishing rule for activities but there are so many ways to appreciate the beauty of this lake such as an easy hike up Rattlesnake Mountain, a visit to Castle in the Clouds for a tour of the castle, or lunch at the Carriage House restaurant overlooking the lake, ziplining at Gunstock Mountain Resort in Gilford.
Just north of Winnipesaukee is Squam Lake, made famous in the movie "On Golden Pond", and with luck you will see the resident pair of Bald Eagles while cruising or kayaking among the islands. For more wildlife viewing or a lake cruise visit the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center in Holderness. To the west grab the picnic basket and beach towel for a trip to Wellington State Park on the shore of Newfound Lake one of the deepest and clearest lakes in the state. While there be sure to stop at the Haunting Whisper Vineyards in Danbury, home to Ragged Mountain Ski Resort for a wine tasting. For quieter pastimes a relaxing day at a spa, a concert at Bank of NH Pavillion venue, a play at the Winnipesaukee Playhouse or a day of shopping at the Tilton Outlets.
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When you want to get away from it all and explore some of the most challenging and exciting terrain available, at one of the best kept secrets on Vancouver Island, a visit to Mount Cain is in order! Enjoy a friendly atmosphere surrounded by rustic cabins and outstanding terrain. Check out the many activities Mount Cain has to offer:
Skiing & Snowboarding: Open on weekends and select Mondays only, the untouched snowfall accumulates all week long leaving the slopes steeped in Vancouver Island's best powder. Mount Cain's lifts include: two T-bars and one beginner's handle tow, giving access to 21 runs and 457 metres of vertical drop.
Cross Country Skiing: There are many unmarked trails and logging access roads. Light touring equipment and a knowledge of the local area is recommended for sub-alpine trails. For the mountaineer, there are three 1,800m peaks within a 5km radius. Please note the area outside the Mount Cain ski area is not patrolled and may require self rescue.
Snowshoeing: Snowshoe the backcountry and discover alpine winter adventure. Trek around Mount Cain's meadows or explore the beauty of the forests. If you can walk, you can snowshoe! Please note snowshoeing at Mount Cain is in non patrolled wilderness areas and is done at your own risk, self rescue may be necessary.
Backcountry Skiing: The backcountry outside of the Mount Cain ski area offers a multitude of bowls and gladed areas from which to choose. Snow and avalanche conditions may vary. Avalanche gear and a knowledge of how to use this equipment are a must so that everyone can enjoy the powder and great turns. Please note that anyone skiing outside of the ski area's boundries does so at their own risk and self rescue may be necessary. The backcountry areas surrounding Mt Cain are NOT patrolled.
Summer Hiking: Once the winter snow recedes and spring opens up the alpine meadows, Mount Cain's high alpine meadows, forests and lakes are excellent for hiking and wildlife viewing.
Fishing: The inland lakes around Mount Cain are great places to relax in the shade of a broad-brimmed hat while waiting for the trout to bite.
Summer Camping: Schoen Lake Provincial Park has lakeside hiking trails as well as a rough alpine route that leads to Mount Schoen's wildflower meadows. Woss Lake, Lake Klaklakama and Anutz Lake all offer great campgrounds and ample wildlife viewing opportunities.
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Mt. Cain is located near Schoen Lake provincial park and is run by the Mt. Cain Alpine Park Society.
It is Vancouver Island's only community owned and operated ski-hill!
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Quick n' Delicious Junglee Mutton Curry- Requires no frying n' no elaborate cooking!
Definitely Worth A Try!
400 gms mutton
1 large onion, chopped
1 large tomato, chopped
4 tbsp pure ghee
3 tbsp mustard oil
1 cup curd, well beaten
2-3 garlic flakes, crushed to paste
1/2 tsp ginger, crushed to paste
2 green cardamom pods
1 black cardamom pod
2-3 cloves
4-5 black peppercorns
1" piece of cinnamon stick
1 bay leaf
1 1/4 tsp of salt or to taste
1 1/4 tsp red chili powder
1/2 tsp garam masala
1 tsp kanda lasun masala (optional)
1. Mix everything together in the pressure cooker. There is no need to heat oil etc.
2. Close the cooker and give 2 whistles. Keep on low flame/heat for about 15-20 minutes.
3. Remove from fire.
4. When the pressure drops, open the pressure cooker. Check for tenderness.
*** If required pressure cook for a few more minutes.
5. Return to fire and cook for about 5-10 more minutes, till a thick masala remains and the mutton looks well fried.
6. Garnish with fresh dhania and serve hot with Roti!


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Elderly wait more than a year for home care
THE Government's much-lauded home care program is failing Australia's seniors with damning new figures showing nearly 127,000 are waiting for a care package or are being forced into a lower level of care.
Those at greatest need remain the worst off. Many of these are frail and/or suffering from dementia and have been approved for the maximum level-four care package; but the wait time for this level is now more than a year, forcing them to accept a much lower level of support, move into a nursing home or end up in hospital.
June to September 2018 data shows the national home care package queue grew by more than 5,000 in three months and more than 20,000 in just nine months - despite the Government releasing more packages including 30,150 during the quarter – an average of 2320 a week.
The estimated time for level two, three and four applicants to receive their approved package is more than 12 months.
Some people on the national queue have been offered stop-gap help through the entry-level Commonwealth Home Support Program with the Government recently announcing it will pour a further $100 million into the program over two years beginning in January.
Aged care providers and seniors groups have expressed serious concerns over the latest figures.
Calling on the Government to develop a sustainable funding strategy, Leading Age Services Australia chief Sean Rooney said people were being forced into aged care and hospitals because they could not access the services they had been assessed as needing.
"This ultimately costs the Government more than giving them a package at an appropriate level, to say nothing of the suffering it causes to older Australians and their carers," he said.
Pat Sparrow chief executive for Aged Care Services Australia described the blow-out in figures as an unacceptable trend.
"It's unacceptable for so many individuals and families to be without the appropriate level of care – either through beings assigned a package that doesn't meet their required needs or without a package at all.
Every quarter it becomes clearer that the provision of home care packages falls well short of being able to keep up with demand. The Government needs to recognise that, without further investment, the problem will only get worse."
If you need anything over and above help with showering, you're more likely going to end up in a nursing homePaul Versteege Combined Pensioners and Superannuants Association
Paul Versteege, policy coordinator at Combined Pensioners and Superannuants Association said that the support people received while in the national prioritisation system was inadequate.
"Two thirds of people (57,646) who have a package have a lower package than they need and a further 69,000 have no package at all. Their 'supports' are CHSP or a nursing home for which 89,773 people (71 per cent) of the overall waiting list have a current approval.
"This means if you need anything over and above help with showering, you're more likely going to end up in a nursing home," he said.
"Just to keep pace with new demand the average weekly release in September should have been 409 more packages.
"The government's commitment doesn't present a plan to stop the horrendous blow-out in the waiting list."
The data also shows the number of care providers increased from 869 on June 30 to 896 on September 30.
The average maximum exit amount was $232 at September 30 a decrease of $12 since June, with 42.1 per cent of providers saying they will not deduct an exit fee.


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IUCN officially launched the EU funded project to build Cambodia's resilience to climate change at a meeting in Koh Kong on August 11, 2011. This 4-year project will build the capacity of people and the ecosystems on which they depend to cope
with impacts of climate change in eight provinces along the coastline between Bangkok and HCMC. In Cambodia, the project will work in Koh Kong and Kampot Provinces.
This half-day meeting was attended by 51 participants from central and provincial governments, local comunities, and NGOs. The meeting started off with welcome remarks from the Deputy Governors of Koh Kong and Kampot Provinces, followed by a presentation on climate change impacts by IUCN's Jake Brunner.
The Deputy Governor of Kampot Province, H.E. Saut Yea, emphasized that climate change impacts are already evident. "We already saw the evidence of climate change impacts in July when the province was affected by drought and higher temperature. There was no rain. Agriculture depends on rain so we could not start producing crops and rice", he said. "We need to understand climate change and how we deal with it. In order to change, we have to adapt".
Brunner highlighted that sea level in the Gulf of Thailand is rising 3-5.5 mm/per year, which is three times faster than the global average of 1.8 mm/year. More intense rainfall, higher peak temperatures, and stronger storms could have huge impacts on people's lives. Although climate change is a gradual process, shorter and unpredictable events will occur.
Brunner shared the example of Cu Lao Cham MPA in Vietnam where no hotels have been built; all visitors over-night with households. Participants expressed interest in this approach but were also concerned that local communities may not have the capacity or experience to manage home-stays in Cambodia. Training and financial support would be needed.
After the presentation, there was a 2-hour discussion among all participants about the main threats to coastal communities and how the project should address these. Participants shared their concerns about climate change and spoke about powerful storms that destroyed roofs, higher waves that flooded houses, and prevented fishermen from venturing out to sea.
Government officials repeatedly stressed the need to work though the government hierarchy before starting working with communities. In terms of project sites, officials from Koh Kong recommended that the project focuses on Peam Krasop Wildlife Sanctuary where the zoning is completed and the project has a good foundation to build on. Other project sites will be identified as part of a situation analysis that will be carried out.
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The recent boom in shale gas production and the subsequent decrease in the price of natural gas have put natural gas front and center in the national energy discussion. This abundant source of domestic fuel presents a great opportunity for the United States to increase our energy independence and reduce carbon emissions. The current low prices are likely to result in greater overall consumption of natural gas by the power, industry, transportation, and export sectors, which could expose our economy to renewed price volatility and potentially lead to premature depletion of our natural gas reserves.
Changes in the natural gas market represent challenges and opportunities for energy efficiency measures. Electric and natural gas efficiency help reduce consumption of natural gas. Some natural gas efficiency measures on the margin are not cost-effective with natural gas prices at $2 per million British thermal units (MMBtu) but the price of natural gas is already increasing and is projected to level out between $4 and $7 per MMBtu. Electric efficiency measures are only marginally affected by the price of natural gas and the majority of measures are still economical. In addition, reducing natural gas consumption helps keep prices stable while still meeting energy demands. Efficiency also reduces pollution, creates jobs, bolsters economic activity, lowers customer utility bills, and extends the available supply of natural gas.


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There's a "For Sale" sign in front of your home, but you didn't put it there. What's worse, you may never know who did.
The object of the sale is your mind, and through it, your vote.
Staggering sums of money — in billions, not millions of dollars — will be invested in that purpose this year, in amounts and ways that were unthinkable only a few years ago.
Most of it will be spent not by the candidates it seeks to elect but by allies pretending to be "independent" of their campaigns. Virtually all of the mind-numbing propaganda it purchases will be negative in nature, deliberately misleading, and sometimes crossing the line into prurient hate.
The sewers through which the money flows, the so-called Super PACS, are often managed by former aides to the candidates who know precisely what the candidates want them to say. Their "independence" is a distinction without a difference, but it is enough to warp the judgment and deaden the consciences of a majority of the Supreme Court.
Some of these committees are required to report where they get and spend the money, but not necessarily in time to let voters know before the election. Others that pretend to be non-political, such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, don't have to reveal anything. There's no assurance that some of it isn't foreign money.
Legislation pending in the Senate would require all such organizations, corporations, and labor unions to file a disclosure report with the Federal Elections Commission within 24 hours of receiving or spending $10,000 or more.
There is no reasonable doubt that this would be constitutional, no matter what the wily Mitch McConnell says. Even in the disastrous Citizens United decision, eight justices acknowledged disclosure as a proper antidote to unlimited spending. Justice Antonin Scalia said so on television this week.
"You are entitled to know where the speech is coming from — you know, information as to who contributed what," Scalia said.
But the Republicans in the U.S. Senate don't think so. They're blocking a vote. Even John McCain's halo went missing on this issue.
Republicans didn't always think that way.
"We believe that every senator should embrace the Disclosure Act of 2012," two former senators wrote in a New York Times op-ed article. "This legislation treats trade unions and corporations equally and gives neither party an advantage. It is good for Republicans and it is good for Democrats. Most important, it is good for the American people."
The former senators are Warren Rudman of New Hampshire and Chuck Hagel of Nebraska. They are Republicans.
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Imagine a World Without Prisons: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Superheroes, and Prison Abolition
From The Abolitionist / By Walidah Imarisha
"And then the orcs stage an uprising and seize the means of production, since they are not only the soldiers, they are also the exploited labor of Middle Earth. If they rise up, Mordor grinds to a halt!"
This unlikely strategy came out of a workshop called "Imaginative Fiction and Social Change," at the Allied Media Conference, an annual gathering in Detroit of radical activists, artists and media makers. The facilitator (and Octavia's Brood contributor), Morrigan Phillips, broke participants into small groups and each one got a fictional land: Oz, the Death Star, Hogwarts, Springfield (of Simpsons fame). Participants then analyzed the conflict and came up with direct action tactics to move their cause for justice forward.
"A successful direct action is like creating a good fantasy story. It's like a quest," Phillips said excitedly in the introduction. "There is a conflict, compelling characters, a good plan, build up, twists and turns, adversity, the climax, and then the win where everyone goes home satisfied. If you do it right."
As Phillips demonstrated, many of the lessons to be taken from science fiction (or speculative fiction/fantasy/horror/take your pick) are incredibly useful when building community-based systems of accountability and abolishing the prison system. (more…)


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Like many modern software companies, Pivotal Labs develops open source software. Our approach to open source projects is rooted in how we work on any project: disciplined, practical and of course, agile. And as Edward mentioned, they're geared to how we develop software at Pivotal Labs.
Jasmine, Cedar, and Robolectric all came out of changes in our clients' needs. A few years back, we weren't able to use existing JavaScript testing frameworks for Palm's webOS, so we wrote Jasmine. Our own Rails developers wanted Jasmine on their projects so we made Jasmine more broadly useful just in time for the JS explosion.
Cedar was born out of Pivotal Labs working on iOS projects and finding that while there is OCUnit, the behavior-driven-development-style of development was more familiar for our Rails developers moving to the new platform. And with the plethora of projects that have iOS clients and Rails back-end APIs using "describe" and "it" everywhere is welcoming.
Android projects didn't need a new test framework – JUnit is just expected in the Java community. But Robolectric was born out of a need to run tests on the desktop JVM instead of having to boot the simulator on every test run – a tax that would cause a test-driven Android app to grind to a halt.
We develop more than test frameworks – Sprout came out of a desire to use Ruby and Chef to tame the process of setting up our developer workstations. We re-image and reconfigure machines often enough that we wanted code and automation to solve the problem. Project Monitor is the CI status radiator we wanted for all of our – and our clients' – offices. When AWS matured enough to be a viable place to host CI, we put together Ciborg to make this a no-brainer for Rails apps. We built License Finder to help us track the licensing concerns our clients have on every project – now it's as simple as a CI build. And Whiteboard, the newest member of the stable, was driven out of a need for both a tool for larger office standups and to make blogging and emailing the minutes easier.
These projects aren't just a way for your team to work the way we work. There are agile lessons in their origins: they are extractions from existing work, targeted strategic efforts that solve real problems. They are small and useful – the simplest things that could possibly work. And all have proven to provide business value to our clients and our consulting practice. We're committed to supporting these projects so that they continue to be useful to us, to our clients, and to your teams. But there is plenty of other open source working happening at Pivotal Labs. There are Pivots working on popular projects in the Rails community like Nokogiri, pg_search, and Capybara-webkit. We take time to submit pull requests – with tests – to many Rails- and Android-related projects. And there are plenty of smaller projects that live at our GitHub account.
And by the way, you can see the CI status of each of these at ci.pivotallabs.com – which is running on Project Monitor.
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Is it on topic? How many students want to speak? Who's already spoken and wants to speak again? How many aren't listening? Is it time to move to a different topic? What's the thinking behind that student question? How might the discussion be wrapped up?
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Most of us are not trained discussion facilitators. We employ strategies discovered largely through trial and error—things that seem to keep discussions on track, moving forward, and engaging students. Unfortunately, many class discussions don't stimulate thinking or push students to a deeper understanding. Sometimes that's because students aren't prepared, aren't interested in the topic, are reluctant to participate, or think listening to their peers is a waste of time. But sometimes the discussion falls short because it wasn't facilitated well.
How effective are your discussion facilitation skills? Do you have any evidence or are you relying on your impressions? Would some feedback be useful? If so, you'll find in the table below and in a downloadable Word doc an empirically developed instrument that can be used to more clearly identify the various skills involved in effective discussion facilitation and to gather student feedback that can help you assess yours.
If you're interested in how the instrument was developed and validated, here's the reference: Finn, A. N. and Schrodt, P., (2016). Teacher discussion facilitation: A new measure and its associations with students' perceived understanding, interest and engagement. Communication Education, 65 (4), 445-462. To request information to use the instrument for research purposes, please contact Amber Finn at firstname.lastname@example.com
An article highlighting the research appeared in the December 2016 issue of the Teaching Professor newsletter (reprint available here). As discussed in more detail in the newsletter and fully in Finn and Schrodt's journal article, survey responses were used to identify five factors involved in effective discussion facilitation. They are listed on the instrument below. [We removed the factors and statistical data from the version in Word so as not to influence student responses]. The two factors that accounted for most of the variance were affirming students' discussion and organizing the discussion.
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Top Items:
David Kravets / Wired News:
DRM Is Dead, But Watermarks Rise From Its Ashes — With all of the Big Four record labels now jettisoning digital rights management, music fans have every reason to rejoice. But consumer advocates are singing a note of caution, as the music industry experiments with digital-watermarking technology as a DRM substitute.
Discussion: Rough Type, TeleRead, TECH.BLORGE.com, Silicon Florist and Mashable!
David Rothman / TeleRead: 'DRM is dead, but watermarks rise from the ashes'
Triston McIntyre / TECH.BLORGE.com: Media groups drop DRM for more invasive watermarking
Rick Turoczy / Silicon Florist: Digital Watermarks: Has Digimarc's time finally come?
Paul Glazowski / Mashable!: Substituting Digital Watermarks for DRM
Allen Salkin / New York Times:
Has Gawker Jumped the Snark? — "THE ideal Gawker item," Nick Denton, the owner of Gawker Media, wrote in an instant message last month to a prospective hire, "is something triggered by a quote at a party, or an incident, or a story somewhere else and serves to expose hypocrisy, or turn conventional wisdom on its head.
Discussion: BOINKOLOGY, mathewingram.com/work and Gawker
Lux Alptraum / BOINKOLOGY: Fleshbot: The Site That Must Not Be Named
Nick Denton / Gawker: Always Jumping The Shark
Randall Stross / New York Times:
From 10 Hours a Week, $10 Million a Year — MARKUS FRIND, a 29-year-old Web entrepreneur, has not read the best seller "The 4-Hour Workweek" — in fact, he had not heard of it when asked last week — but his face could go on the book's cover. He developed software for his online dating site …
Discussion: mathewingram.com/work and Mark Evans
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Striking Writers to Launch Online Video Co., Seeking $30M+ — Out of work and newly wise to the state of content being distributed online, a group of professional writers is looking to start their own production and distribution company. Aaron Mendelsohn, writer of the Disney film Air Bud …
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com: Striking Writers: Venture Capitalists vs. Media Moguls?
Paul Glazowski / Mashable!: WGA Collective To Start Independent "Virtual Artists" Venture
Chris Sorensen / Toronto Star:
Telus considers dumping its 'Betamax' of wireless networks — With more wireless competition looming, executives at Telus Corp. are believed to be mulling a pricey swap of the firm's network technology in a bid to offer subscribers a bigger selection of mobile devices and grab a larger slice of lucrative international roaming fees.
Discussion: All About Nortel
Mark Evans / All About Nortel: CDMA: The "Betamax" of Wireless
Arn / MacRumors Macworld San Francisco Blog:
"MacBook Air" Whispers... I've heard various whispers about the new thin MacBook. Here are a few additional tidbits and confirmations about what might be coming from Apple on Tuesday. — A slim notebook, but not a "sub notebook" — 13.3" screen — Not a "Pro" machine
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac, ParisLemon and Digg
Jordan Golson / Valleywag:
Can Apple save WiMax?
Can Apple save WiMax?
Discussion: The Apple Core, Wi-Fi Networking News, 9 to 5 Mac, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband, Digital Daily and Digg
David Morgenstern / The Apple Core: Apple walks on water and WiMax Mobile
Glenn Fleishman / Wi-Fi Networking News: Is Apple Prepping WiMax for Laptops?
Cleve Nettles / 9 to 5 Mac: "There is Something in the Air" means WiMAX?
Russell Shaw / IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband: Monday at Macworld: clues point to Jobs announcing Xohm WiMax …
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: WiMac? — With just days to go before Steve Jobs takes the stage …
Adrian Covert / Gizmodo:
Macworld Rumor: Mac Tablet Not Coming This Year, First Macworld Spyshots Appear
Macworld Rumor: Mac Tablet Not Coming This Year, First Macworld Spyshots Appear
Luigi Lugmayr / I4U News: MacWorld 2008: There's something in the air.
5 Who Won't Appreciate Google Android — Written by Thomas Howe, co-founder and CEO of The Thomas Howe Company, winners of the 2007 O'Reilly Emerging Communications Mashup Competition. His blog is about voice mashups and communication-enhanced business processes.
Discussion: DSLreports
Rick Aristotle Munarriz / Motley Fool:
Banned by Google … Even public companies feel the wrath of the Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) Police. — Shares of IncrediMail (Nasdaq: MAIL), an Israeli company that provides interactive e-mail products to 10 million active users, opened 40% lower today after the company told investors it was booted from Google's AdSense program.
Discussion: WebMetricsGuru, WebProNews, paidContent.org and Business Wire
Marshall Sponder / WebMetricsGuru: Banned from Google AdSense - IncrediMail Poll
Jens Alfke / Thought Palace:
Gone Indie — OK, by popular complaint I've cracked open the stylesheet and (a) darkened both comments and body text; and (b) fixed the problem with magnified text. — My apologies. I actually do like web design, but my patience with it is more limited than at regular programming …
Discussion: Chuqui 3.0 and Infinite Loop
Justin Berka / Infinite Loop: On Apple employees "going indie"
Anita Kumar / Washington Post:
Virginia Considers Ban On Driving While Texting — Some Virginia lawmakers want drivers to take their thumbs off the keyboards and put them back on the steering wheel while cruising down Virginia's roads. — They are tackling the problem of drivers who send, read and write messages on cellphones, PDAs and BlackBerrys.
Discussion: Digital Media Wire and Digg
Scott Goldberg / Digital Media Wire: Virginia Considering Ban on Texting & Driving
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Big Think, the "Intellectual YouTube" backed by ex-Harvard Prez Lawrence Summers, Launches with Style and Starpower — Launched earlier this week, Big Think is a site with short video clips of leading thinkers in business and society. — The New York based start-up, founded …
Discussion: broadstuff
Alan Patrick / broadstuff: BIG THINK - GREAT IDEA, SMALL AUDIENCE?
Ryan Kairer / PalmInfocenter.com:
Palm's Next Generation OS is Code-named Nova — Recently the question of what to call Palm's next generation OS has been a source of confusion and commotion around the boards here at PIC. Members have so far been referring to it by a multitude of names and acronyms such as: Palm OS 2 …
Discussion: Pocket PC Thoughts, IntoMobile and Engadget Mobile
Ed Hansberry / Pocket PC Thoughts: Next Palm OS Codenamed Nova
Chris Ziegler / Engadget Mobile: Palm's new OS codenamed "Nova"?
From major to minor — Last year was terrible for the recorded-music majors. The next few years are likely to be even worse — IN 2006 EMI, the world's fourth-biggest recorded-music company, invited some teenagers into its headquarters in London to talk to its top managers about their listening habits.
Discussion: Smalltalk Tidbits …, mathewingram.com/work, Silicon Alley Insider, Digital Daily and hypebot
James A. Robertson / Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants: The Importance of Being Agile — Being agile in a business sense …
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider: EMI's $400,000 Coke And Hookers Budget
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: QUOTED — In 2006 EMI, the world's fourth-biggest recorded …
Bruce Houghton / hypebot: Friday's Music 2. Briefing: From Majors To Minor, FCC Approves …
Grant Robertson / Globe and Mail:
Controversial 'iPod tax' struck down on appeal — A proposed levy on digital music players that became known this summer as the "iPod tax" has been struck down after opponents argued it was unfair to Canadians. — The Federal Court of Appeal has ruled that the Canadian Copyright Board …
Austin Modine / The Register:
Canucks kill second attempt at 'iPod tax'
Canucks kill second attempt at 'iPod tax'
Discussion: TechSpot News
Justin Mann / TechSpot News: Canada avoids iPod tax again
Paul McDougall / InformationWeek:
Windows Vista, Office 2007 Expelled From British Schools — A British educational report suggests the upgrade would increase costs and create software compatibility problems while providing little benefit. — The agency that governs educational technology in the United Kingdom has advised schools …
Discussion: Windows Vista Weblog and Slashdot
ScuttleMonkey / Slashdot: Britain Advises Against Vista, Office 2007 for Schools


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This post is aimed at my Dell colleagues in the US.
If you're like me, you dread the weeks shortly after Back To School. Sure, the kids are now settled into their daily routines, evening homework, Fall sports and Scouting, but with the start of the new school year comes the start of Fall Fundraising by each and every organization you're fortunate enough to be a part of or even nearby. Each organization worthy in its own right, and as active participants, you bet we're going to donate.
But did you know you can double your money? Yep! For every dollar you donate to a familiar charity, Dell will match that donation dollar-for-dollar up to $10,000/year per employee. This is an amazing benefit, which I had long put on my Tell Dell survey wishlist, and starting about 7 years ago (maybe more?) it became reality.
Now, there's one little catch – you can't simply hand over a check to your familiar charity and let them get it doubled. You must send your donation through the Dell internal web site (internal home page, You and Dell, Employee Giving), pay via credit card or payroll deduction (or if you're particularly generous, stock donation), and in a few weeks Dell sends a check for 2x your amount to the charity. Relatively painless, and a fantastic benefit. You can give to a bunch of charities, or a few; a little (minimum $25), or a lot (up to $10k matched) any time during the year. The $10k match resets on January 1.
In addition, Dell wants to encourage employees to volunteer their time, as well as give their money, to charitable causes. Are you a Scout leader? A coach? A board member? Maybe you help out at the library or at church. However you volunteer is up to you. In recognition of your volunteer hours, Dell will give $150 each quarter (yep, that's $600/year) to charities you designate (they don't even have to be the same organizations you volunteer for if you want), as long as you log 10 or more hours of volunteer time in the quarter. So go to the tool (inside home page, You and Dell, Make a Difference), set up your charities, and log your hours. Then it's free money for the charities you choose.
So, don't let that Free Money pass you by. You know the charities need it, and it's a simple benefit on top of the activities you're up to your neck in already. Take a few minutes to double your contributions, and send that $600 to folks who really need it.


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"STRANGE OAKS" from Headless Productions on Vimeo.It's time for them to make their first feature film.
Friday, March 15, 2013
Another Treat From Headless
These Guys are great! Another treat from Headless Studios.
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Sunday, March 10, 2013
New Project
These are 2 images of visual development for a project that is dear to my heart. It's being developing quite well and soon I will be able to show more good finished stuff.
Wish me luck to get it done in the near future.
Wish me luck to get it done in the near future.
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Friday, March 8, 2013
Sunday, March 3, 2013
More Joe Jump
Here are a few more drawings from the Joe Jump project. These are concepts of monsters from the modern video game world. The last one is a sheet with some rough sketches suggestions for Joe Jump himself.
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Rust and Bone
Time Out says
French filmmaker Jacques Audiard's latest drama – his first since 'A Prophet' in 2009 – stalks the fringes and extremes of human experience. It's an end-of-the-line story of a man and woman. She's a strong spirit dampened by a terrible accident; he's a homeless single father who scrapes a living from street-fighting. They meet in adversity on the Cote d'Azur and develop an odd, fragile bond.
Ali (Matthias Schoenaerts) travels from Belgium to the south of France to stay with a sister he barely knows, bringing along his good-natured young son, Sam (Armand Verdure). Taking work as a bouncer, he has a brief encounter with a woman, Stephanie (Marion Cotillard), who gets into a fight in his club. But it's only after Stephanie, who trains and performs with orcas at a local sea park, loses both her legs in the most shocking of workplace accidents, that they meet again, after she calls him out of the blue.
Ali and Stephanie form a friendship, hang out on the beach and fall into bed whenever he gives the nod. He gruffly rejects any proper emotional connection, while she expects little from life and other people: her trauma has placed her in an emotional limbo. This is a bold relationship for any filmmaker and his cast to explore: here we have a woman with stumps for legs and a man seemingly with a stump for a heart. Yet Cotillard avoids straining for sympathy, while Schoenaerts offers a portrait of damaged reserve that means we're willing to run along with him, even like him.
There are intense, violent and upending moments in which Audiard flexes his muscles as a master of gutter atmosphere and plays compellingly with textures and shadows, moving between the light and dark and revelling in half-seen events. It's a film that vividly and confidently inhabits its own world. But, right from the off, you sense a director fighting to avoid melodrama, sentiment and predictability. It's a valiant approach that makes for beautiful and strange-looking moments. Yet it also leaves us with a film that feels contrived, meandering and inert, as if the extreme events at its core – and these events constantly threaten to seem ridiculous in isolation – are mere excuses for a tourist excursion into the under regions of France and human experience.
'Rust & Bone' looks for the poetry in damage and is painted in blood, sweat and tears. The muscularity of Audiard's approach becomes more macho and less appealing as the film goes on, and the script wanders down distracting byroads that make it feel episodic and inattentive. There's an intimacy at the beginning of the film between Ali and his son Sam that's never achieved in the relationship between Ali and Stephanie –though both Cotillard and Schoenaerts strive to give searching and meaningful performances. A hysterical climax that tips Ali into the realms of the loving and the loved feels manipulative and tacked on.
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- Tech Trader Daily
PC Shipments Drop 11% in Q2, Say Gartner, IDC; Longest-Ever Period of Decline
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Gartner this afternoon reports that worldwide personal computer shipments totaled 76 million in Q2, according to its preliminary estimate, an 11% drop from 85.32 million in the year-earlier period, making it the fifth quarter in a row of declining shipments, the "longest duration of decline in the PC market's history."
Remarked Gartner analyst Mika Kitagawa, "We are seeing the PC market reduction directly tied to the shrinking installed base of PCs, as inexpensive tablets displace the low-end machines used primarily for consumption in mature and developed markets."
"In emerging markets, inexpensive tablets have become the first computing device for many people, who at best are deferring the purchase of a PC. This is also accounting for the collapse of the mini notebook market."
Lenovo (0992HK) came in at first place in worldwide shipments, with 16.7% share, which was up from its year-earlier share of 14.9%, and its second-place spot that year, even though shipment volume of 12.68 million PCs was down 0.6%, said Gartner.
Lenovo edged out Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), which had second place in global shipment share, at 16.3%, with a 4.8% decline in shipments, year over year.
Dell (DELL) was in third place, its 11.8% share a bounce form 11% a year earlier, even though shipments fell 3.9%. Acer (2353TW), in fourth place with 8.3% share, saw the biggest decline among the top five, with a 35.3% year-over-year shipment drop.
In the U.S. market, HP had the top spot, with 26.4% share, Dell took second place with 24.6% share, and Apple (AAPL) was at third place, with 11.6% share. Apple's share dropped year over year to 11.6% from 12%, as shipments fell 4.3%, Gartner said. HP's volume shrank a half a percent, and Dell was a standout, with 6.4% shipment growth.
Lenovo also had strong U.S. shipment growth, up 19.7%, at 1.52 million units, putting it in fourth place behind Apple's 1.74 million units.
While U.S. shipments of PCs slid 1.4%, to 14.98 million units, much better than the global average, shipments into Europe, the Middle East, and Africa plunged 16.8%, year over year. Shipments into Asia/Pacific fell 11.5%, to 26.8 million.
Shares of Microsoft (MSFT), which supplies the operating system for the vast majority of PCs, are unchanged at $34.70 in late trading.
Update: IDC has now posted its numbers, which show a steeper 11.4% decline in Q2, to 75.6 million units, which the firm says was actually "slightly better than expected" compared to a forecast for 75.4 million units.
IDC has the same ranking among the top five vendors, giving a slightly higher 12.2% market share globally to Dell versus the 11.8% that Gartner projects.
In the domestic market, IDC's numbers for HP and Dell are roughly the same as Gartner's, although Apple comes out a little better, with slightly lower share, at 11.5%, but also higher units than Gartner had projected, 1.806 million units, and a small decline, year over year, of only half a percent.
IDC analyst Jay Chou is more upbeat in his assessment than Gartner, however, noting small signs of hope, despite the breakdown in China and emerging markets:
With second quarter growth so close to forecast, we are still looking for some improvement in growth during the second half of the year. Slower growth in Europe and China reflect the risks, while the improved U.S. outlook reflects potential improvement. Still, the weakness in emerging markets is a threat to a core long-term growth area. In addition, while efforts by the PC ecosystem to bring down price points and embrace touch computing should make PCs more attractive, a lot still needs to be done in launching attractive products and addressing competition from devices like tablets [...] One positive sign is that HP and Dell saw growth improve over recent quarters, possibly indicating stronger performance in coming quarters and reflecting more commercial replacements as we get closer to the end of Windows XP support. Market leader Lenovo also grew faster than the market (as well as faster than HP and Dell) although Lenovo growth slipped below zero at -1.4% and was down from prior quarters. Slow growth for Lenovo reflects the company's focus on China, which represents over 50% of Lenovo shipments, and where short-term economic and inventory hurdles cut into 2Q13 shipments.


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Today, a Security Bulletin (APSB13-08) has been posted to address security issues in Adobe Flash Player 11.6.602.168 and earlier versions for Windows, Adobe Flash Player 11.6.602.167 and earlier versions for Macintosh, and Adobe Flash Player 126.96.36.1990 and earlier versions for Linux.
Adobe is aware of reports that CVE-2013-0643 and CVE-2013-0648 are being exploited in the wild in targeted attacks designed to trick the user into clicking a link which directs to a website serving malicious Flash (SWF) content. The exploit for CVE-2013-0643 and CVE-2013-0648 is designed to target Flash Player in Firefox.
Adobe recommends users apply the updates for their product installations.
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Sean Payton's suspension was lifted a couple of weeks ago, and Payton wasted little time reminding the Saints he was back in charge. And now that Gregg Williams has also been freed, we've come to learn his bounty exile didn't just include a backpacking adventure through the remote regions of Burma and Laos: At some point during his own "Kill the Head" leave, Williams negotiated a deal to become the Titans' senior assistant/defense, a gig that reunites him with Titans defensive coordinator Jerry Gray and returns him to the franchise that employed him for the first 11 seasons of his NFL coaching career:
"Commissioner Roger Goodell today notified Gregg Williams and the Tennessee Titans that Williams' contract with the Titans has been approved and that he has been reinstated. The commissioner cited several reasons for the reinstatement, including Williams' forthcoming acknowledgement of and acceptance of responsibility for his role in the bounty program at the Saints, his commitment to never again be involved in a pay-for-performance or bounty system, and his pledge to teach safe play and respect for the rules at all levels of the game. The commissioner emphasized that Williams must fully conform to league rules and will be subject to periodic monitoring to confirm his compliance."
Serious question: Does this mean the Beep Beep Awards will be moving to Nashville, too?


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Creating Culturally Affirming Education for Students of Color: Integrating the Performing Arts and Academics
March 26-28, 2009
Ithaca College
On March 26-28, 2009 the School of Music and the Department of Education at Ithaca College are sponsoring a very exciting conference for educators and others interested in improving the effectiveness of instruction and the overall school experience for youth of color and their families. The conference will present keynote addresses and workshops by nationally recognized experts and effective classroom teachers for the purpose of helping music educators and regular classroom teachers become more skilled and successful in their work with youth of color and their families.
The conference will emphasize the specifics of successful, culturally responsive instruction. Music teachers will learn how to program culturally empowering music and to build a safe and supportive community of learners and performers in the K-12 classroom and other relevant settings. Academic classroom teachers will learn how to create engaging, multicultural, interdisciplinary, and critically reflective learning experiences for the purpose of achieving academic success and constructive identity development. The conference is designed to help educators integrate the arts and academics to achieve exciting, powerful education.
For details about how to register for the conference, click here. Due to grant funding obtained from Ithaca College by the conference organizers, the registration fee is only $125. This includes: attendance at all conference events, materials handed out during workshops, 2 breakfasts, 2 lunches, 3 dinners, and refreshment breaks. The conference is limited to the first 120 registrants. Registrants may attend all or any part of the conference, but the full registration fee is required.
Conference organizers have arranged for a "conference rate" at three Ithaca hotels. Conference participants should make their own arrangements, and when reserving a room at these hotels they should request the rate for the Creating Culturally Affirming Education Conference. These hotels and their rates are:
-- Clarion Hotel -- $85.95 a night/dbl room -- 1 Sheraton Dr., Ithaca, NY 14850 -- 607-257-2000
-- Country Inn Suites -- $99.00 a night/dbl room -- 1100 Danby Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850 -- 607-256-1100
-- Holiday Inn -- $109.00 a night/dbl room -- 222 South Cayuga St., Ithaca, NY 14850 -- 607-272-1000
There are also other hotels/motels and B&B's in Ithaca, which participants may search online.


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Hello Tarotcardreader thank you for this, as today I have been feeling a bit sad wondering if I did the right thing and if it was even worth it. I am now 6 days post op and have not not lost any weight in the past 3 days when I was steadily losing. Today, I noticed a one pound gain. I don't know if it is what I learned called a STALL. I read that some people go through these weeks to months to years later and am afraid that with me it already started.
Still dont feel skinny/thin..wonder when that is going to happen.· 4 replies
I don't "feel" skinny/thin either but I know I am just by looking in a full length mirror! I remember one time I was in TJMAXX and passed a mirror and saw myself from the side. I had to stop and take another look because I couldn't believe that was me. Actually, I never felt "morbidly obese" either. I just knew I was by looking at the size of my clothing and the number on the scale!
Same here.... I remember the first time i caught a glimpse of myself in a mirror in a mall.... i had to back up and i started crying ... I could not believe it was me. that was way back in 2012ish.... when i was 143#..... now at 120# even though the pants size says 0-2..I still don't see it. I know i have body dysmorphia
It is a very odd thing- also wondering when it comes around because, some days I feel fatter than ever.
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TALLADEGA, AL – Front Row Motorsports lived up to its name Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway, as FRM driver David Ragan, driving for an underfunded team, won the Aaron's 499 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race and teammate David Gilliland finished second.
It marked another in a long line of upset winners at Talladega Superspeedway, a list that includes Brad Keselowski (who won here in 2009 in only his fifth Sprint Cup start), Bobby Hamilton, Phil Parsons, Ron Bouchard, Lennie Pond and Dick Brooks. But this one might have been the biggest surprise of them all, considering that Front Row's various drivers had combined to make 403 Sprint Cup starts over the past nine years with no victories and only four top-10 finishes. Ragan, in fact, said it truly was a Davids vs. Goliath story.
"This is special to get Front Row Motorsports their first win," Ragan said. "A lot of these guys (on the team) have been to Victory Lane in all kinds of series. But to do it here at Talladega in 2013 … I couldn't be more proud to play my role. It's a huge, huge deal for us. I've got to thank David Gilliland. If it wasn't for that final push from him, I don't know what would have happened."
Even though Gilliland finished second, he was nearly as excited as his teammate. "It's been my dream since I came to Front Row to get (team owner) Bob Jenkins to Victory Lane," Gilliland said. "This is about as much as I could help today. For an under-funded team to be able to come in here and finish 1-2 is just awesome. It's a huge day for any team to get first and second, but for our little team, it's a special day. I still want to get that first win, but we'll take second for sure and get the first win for our team."
The race ended with a green-white-checkered finish. Matt Kenseth led on the restart but was passed by Carl Edwards. Initially Edwards was worried about either Kenseth or Jimmie Johnson passing him on the final lap, until he spotted Ragan and Gilliland charging hard through the middle of the track.
"I was doing everything I could," said Edwards, who finished third. "I blocked Matt and I thought, 'Oh, we've got it.' And then I saw Jimmie coming and I blocked him. I thought we were going to win it until I saw these guys coming and I thought, 'Who is that?' I blocked as much as I could, but I just couldn't stay in front of them.
"As frustrated as I am about the loss, I'm really happy for those guys. I obviously wanted to win that race for a lot of reasons, but it truly couldn't happen to two better guys and a hard-working team.
Johnson, who finished fifth and maintained the lead in the Sprint Cup standings by 41 points over Edwards, also was surprised to see Ragan and Gilliland make the late charge through traffic coming toward the trioval.
"I thought the race would be settled between me and (Edwards and Kenseth), but then those two guys came up on us so fast," said Johnson, who finished fifth. "I could see Carl trying to block, and he finally said there's no real way to block this speed that they're bringing, and those two went blowing by. It's really cool for that team."
Michael Waltrip finished fourth in only his second Sprint Cup start of the season. Regan Smith was sixth followed by Martin Truex Jr. in seventh, Kenseth eighth, Scott Speed ninth and Aric Almirola 10th.
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What? Wirehouses are in trouble? Not according to the Oracle.
Warren Buffett will become one of Goldman Sachs' (GS) 10 largest shareholders after the bank amended a warrant agreement made with the billionaire from 1998.
The deal saves Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) billions in costs and lets Goldman maintain the accretion to its stock price.
Under the original agreement, the warrant provided Berkshire Hathaway the right to purchase 43,478,260 shares of Goldman Sachs' common stock, par value $0.01 per share, at an exercise price of $115 at any time until Oct. 1.
Under the amended agreement, Goldman will deliver to Berkshire the number of shares of common stock equal in value to the difference between the average closing price over the 10 trading days preceding Oct. 1 and the exercise price of $115 multiplied by the number of shares of common stock covered by the warrant (43,478,260).
At that price, the structure of the deal implies that Berkshire would receive 9.6 million Goldman shares. That would make Buffett the ninth-largest investor in the firm, according to Thomson Reuters data.
Claiming that his first transaction was actually with Goldman Sachs more than 50 years ago, Buffett said in a statement Tuesday that "we intend to hold a significant investment in Goldman Sachs. I have been privileged to have known and admired Goldman's executive leadership team since my first meeting with Sidney Weinberg in 1940."
"We are pleased that Berkshire Hathaway intends to remain a long-term investor in Goldman Sachs," Lloyd Blankfein, the wirehouse's chairman and CEO, added.


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Call for State Govt to take tougher stance on hooning
CONCERNS have been raised about why Queensland needs tougher anti-hooming laws when an average of 10,000 vehicles a year are impounded under current rules.
The Police Powers and Responsibilities (Motor Vehicle Impoundment) Bill will allow police officers to impound vehicles for three months for a motorist's first offence and if the motorist offends again in the next five years, the vehicle could be sold off or crushed.
Offences including evading police and high-end speeding - 40kmh over the speed limit - will also be included in the type 1 and 2 offences that will attract the new tough penalties.
Rockhampton MP Bill Byrne questioned how the success of the new laws would be measured considering almost 10,000 vehicles were impounded a year.
"Ten thousand people a year under present legislation - that seems to me to be an extraordinary number in a pretty active program frankly," he said during a parliamentary committee meeting today.
Of the 10, 000 vehicles seized, only 23 are impounded due to illegal modifications.
Almost 50,000 infringement notices a year are also issued to motorists for similar hoon offences.
Toowoomba North MP Trevor Watts suggested the small number of vehicles impounded for car modifications contrasted with car enthusiasts' argument they would be unfairly targeted under the new laws.
Queensland Police traffic support branch Acting Chief Superintendent Andy Morrow agreed.
"That is the conclusion that we came to," he told the committee.
"We are at a bit of a loss to understand that particular concern from car enthusiasts."
He said the proposed legislation was not about targeting an "ordinary person making a noise at an intersection" but sustained bad driving behaviour.
The Legal Affairs and Community Safety Committee will consider the bill and submissions.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – TSU's Daniel Fitzpatrick and De'Ante Saunders have earned spots on the 2014 College Football Performance Awards (CFPA) FCS Awards Watch List.
Fitzpatrick is returning to TSU for the 2014 season as the winner of the 2013 CFPA Defensive Back Award. He won the honor after leading Division I with eight interceptions and adding 75 tackles.
Saunders who was named to the OVC All-Newcomer Team at season's end, added four picks and broke up a team-high nine passes.
The initial watch list includes 38 defensive backs, vying for the top defensive back award in the Football Championship Subdivision. All players are eligible for awards at their respective positions; players are not preemptively eliminated from consideration.
Tennessee State is one of six programs with multiple players on the defensive back watch list (joining North Dakota State, Stetson, Southeastern Louisiana, Sacred Heart, and Saint Francis).
The goal of College Football Performance Awards is to provide the most scientifically rigorous conferments in college football. Recipients are selected exclusively based upon objective scientific rankings of the extent to which individual players increase the overall effectiveness of their teams. Twenty-eight CFPA winners have been first-round NFL Draft selections.


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There has been renewed interest in the effect that pre and postselection has on the foundations of quantum theory. Often, but not solely, in conjunction with weak measurement, pre and postselection scenarios are said to simultaneous create and resolve paradoxes. These paradoxes are said to be profound quandaries which bring us closer to the resolving the mysteries of the quantum. Here I was show that the same effects are present in classical physics when postselection and disturbance are allowed. In particular, I will demonstrate that anomalous weak values and protective measurements are already present in classical theory, thereby showing that these effects do not represent something uniquely quantum nor something that ought to be thought of as paradoxical. This is joint work with Josh Combes and Matt Leifer.


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Newtown charity making money available to families
NEWTOWN (AP) — One of the charities set up following the massacre of the Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown has begun cutting checks to the victims' families.
Rob Accomando, the co-founder and director of the My Sandy Hook Family Fund, says that organization has been working closely with all 26 families and on Wednesday began dispersing some of the just under $1.2 million it has raised.
He says each family is entitled to 1/26th of the fund, but not everyone needs or wants their entire share right away.
Dozens of funds have been set up to raise money for Newtown-related causes. The largest, the Sandy Hook School Support Fund, is in the process of setting up a foundation to determine how to spend more than $8.6 million it has raised.


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I can't say how friggin awesome my brother is. He called me the other day to ask if I was still instreted in building an old muscle car. I said that I was and wanted to build a Monte Carlo. He replies are you sure because I just got a 78 and a 79 Camero, he plans on building the 78 and asked if I wanted to build the 79. I said sounds like a great idea, then he replies good then I am giving you the 79 all it need is a floor pan on the passanger side and I am gonna change that for you then the car is yours for free. Like I said he is friggin awesome. He did body work for 20 plus years and he's telling me the body is solid with the exception of the floor board that he's changing and he is gonna leave the engine up to me. The car runs and drive fine but the tired old 305 smokes, so it's coming out and hello 350. Will post pictures of the progress.


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Hartz pet treats recalled
Unapproved antibiotic residue detected in products
The Hartz Mountain Corporation is voluntarily withdrawing its Hartz Chicken Chews and Hartz Oinkies Pig Skin Twists wrapped with Chicken for dogs because they contain trace amounts of unapproved antibiotic residue.
Even though two-thirds of the products tested did not contain antibiotic residues, the company said it would rather be overly cautious by voluntarily withdrawing these products from the market.
There is no indication that the trace amounts of unapproved antibiotic residue are linked to the FDA's ongoing investigation of chicken jerky products produced in China. The trace amounts of antibiotic residue do not pose a health or pet safety risk, Hartz said.
If you have these products contact the Hartz 800-275-1414 for a product refund or go to www.hartz.com for additional information.


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I have a friend who has taught me this truth lately. (Katy you know I'm talkin' bout you.)
Education would also fall into this category. I guess you could also buy stocks, and they could pay off and make you richer, but I'm talking about real riches here.
Here's what I want you to do: take a minute and remember a trip you took with your family as a kid. Think about the actual travel part. Think about the destination, and the food you had, and the funny things that happened.
What is that memory worth to you?
We talked about just flying to our destination for our summer trip. But, you know, I think there is something to be said about road trippin' with your kids. The misery. The smell. The togetherness. It's a hellofa long haul eh? Memories people. Memories.
We are road trippin' today. We are driving cross country in the family wagon. We are taking treats. We are taking movies. We are not taking the dog. Although that was, at one point, an irrational thought.
We have quite a few trips planned for the rest of the year. Big trips and little trips. Trips with kids and without.
I am so excited to see where all of these journeys take us. I feel rich.
**** If you are looking to enrich your own life, there is still room for you if you'd like to come to Morocco with Mindy and I in October.****


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